Logically we can state with confidence that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters would eventually reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare. That's all very well for the monkeys, but it's not actually that useful to humans.
Opinion
March 27, 2023
The real value of large language models like GPT-4 isn’t in writing, it’s reading
All of the attention around large language models has focused on its ability to write — but could reading be where the potential lies?
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Christopher Brennan is the cofounder of AI startup Overtone.

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